NibblePoker's Clang Goodies

Small collection of utilities and libraries for C in order to simplify some development tasks.

Features

• Robust launch arguments parsing & handling with verb support
• Single & double linked lists with custom node support and QoL functions
• Basic chained HashMaps
• Various string utilities
• Toggleable debugging output functions
• Complete, macro-able WCHAR support
• Small extras like UUID4, CRC32B & platform detection
• Supports a variety of OS, CPU ISA & Compilers
• Other features to come as needed or requested

Planned Features

• More HashMap types & more utilities
• Platform-agnostic with some optional improvements on a per-OS and opt-in basis.
• Optional assembly-level optimisations for some procedures.
• Support for ReactOS & TCC
• An INI config parser ()

Usage

TODO: Add reminder to check the Definitions page.

CMake's FetchContent

Firstly, insert the following lines into your CMakeLists.txt:

# Including the `FetchContent` directives.
include(FetchContent)
 
# Configuring the library. (Optional)
set(NP_GOODIES_BUILD_BENCHMARKS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)  # OFF by default.
set(NP_GOODIES_BUILD_EXAMPLES   OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)  # OFF by default.
set(NP_GOODIES_BUILD_TESTS      OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)  # OFF by default.
 
# Downloading the library in the build folder.
FetchContent_Declare(
        np_clang_goodies
        GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/aziascreations/C99-Utility-Libraries.git"
        GIT_TAG "master"
        GIT_PROGRESS TRUE
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(np_clang_goodies)
 
# Moving the library into the build folder's root. (Optional)
set_target_properties(lib_np_clang_goodies PROPERTIES ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/")
set_target_properties(lib_np_clang_goodies PROPERTIES LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/")
set_target_properties(lib_np_clang_goodies PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/")

Finally, configure your targets like so:

# Configuring out target
add_executable(MyApp src/main.c)  # Use your setup, only the target's name matters.
 
target_include_directories(MyApp PRIVATE ${PROJECT_INCLUDE})  # May be useless.
target_link_libraries(MyApp PRIVATE lib_np_clang_goodies)
add_dependencies(MyApp lib_np_clang_goodies)  # Does nothing in my tests, but it can't hurt.
 
# Optional per-target config
target_compile_definitions(MyApp PUBLIC NP_DEBUG_LOGGING)  # Enables debugging and optional error logging.

CMake's Include

TODO: Find a way to make this work properly, doesn't detect that its imported !

CMake Manual Import

In order to use this library in your projects via a manual import you need to do the following things:

Firstly, add this repository as a submodule in your project and checkout to a specific tag or commit:

git submodule add https://github.com/aziascreations/C99-Utility-Libraries.git libs/nibblepoker-c-goodies
git -C libs/nibblepoker-c-goodies checkout <hash|tag>

Afterward, add the following lines in your CMakeLists.txt:

file(
    GLOB_RECURSE src_nibblepoker_c_goodies
    CONFIGURE_DEPENDS "libs/nibblepoker-c-goodies/src/*.h" "libs/nibblepoker-c-goodies/src/*.c"
)

Finally, modify you targets to add ${src_nibblepoker_c_goodies} like so:

add_executable(my_app src/main.c ${src_nibblepoker_c_goodies} ...)

Examples

Some examples that demonstrate how to use most of the functions this library provides can be found in the examples/ folder.

Alternatively, you can also check the aziascreations/C99-Win32-Wifi-Utility repository for a complete example in a "fully-fledged" Windows application.

Launch arguments

TODO

Double Linked Lists

• Basic operations
  • Creating a list, adding, accessing & iteration over values and basic freeing call.
• Custom freeing operation
  • Same as above while using structured data that needs to be freed in a specific way.
• Custom list nodes
  • Same as above while using a custom superset of the standard list node in order to better suit some edge cases.
• Functions specific to double linked lists
  • Testing functions that have a dllist-specific implementation.

Hashing

• CRC32B hashing
  • Basic example of hashing data with CRC32B.

HashMaps

TODO

UUID

• UUID4 generation
  • Rudimentary RNG setup & UUID4 generation.
• UUID4 generation with Win32API
  • Safe RNG setup with Win32APIs & UUID4 generation.

Text

TODO

Documentation

Viewing

You can consult the documentation at the following URL:
    https://aziascreations.github.io/C99-Utility-Libraries/

It is automatically updated when a commit is pushed onto the master branch.

Building

If you want to build the documentation, you need to do the following things:

• Install Doxygen on your system.
• Clone the git submodules with git submodule update --init --recursive.
• Run the make-doc.bat script.
• Go into docs/html and open the index.html file.

Benchmarks

This project provides a couple of benchmarks in order to justify some of the design choices I made.

Please refer to the Benchmarks page for more information.

Licenses

This project is dual-licensed under the following open-source licenses.
You can choose the one that best suits your needs:

1. [MIT License](LICENSE-MIT)
     ● Just include the LICENSE-MIT file and be done with it while using an OSI license.
2. [CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) (Public Domain)](LICENSE-CC0)
     ● Do whatever you want with it.
     ● No credit, mentions or anything else is needed.
     ● Just have fun programming :)

Keep in mind, the doxygen-awesome-css submodule repository uses an MIT license.
You can either not clone it or fork the project and remove it to be 100% safe if you use the CC0 1.0 license.
The documentation will still build without it, but it will have a "worse"-looking UI.